For FURORE Edition Five, fashion and art are once again intimately entwined. This time, designer Elke Baert found inspiration in the oeuvre of Belgian painter Roger Raveel (1921 - 2013), whose birth centenary is currently being celebrated with comprehensive retrospectives at both BOZAR and the Roger Raveel Museum.

Elke Baert translates the renowned painting Garden with Cart to Transport the Sky into a lozenge pattern and abstracts the cart yet further. The tiny white squares that link the individual panes allude to the white plane, a central device in Raveel’s work that was inspired by a sheet on a washing line. Or to quote Raveel himself: “The white hole in reality, a mental space”.